Local Office Address:

BARCIK Shyamnagar Resource Centre

Kolbari Bazar, Burigoalini, Shyamnagar, Satkhira.

A society that is respecting the cultural and natural diversity and develops towards meeting the interdependent needs of humans, animals, plants and other natural resources

Strengthen and facilitate processes in which local communities are able to meet the interdependent needs of humans, animals, plants and other natural resources by sharing and using their knowledge, experience and own resources, as well as engaging in joint initiatives with different groups, institutions and stakeholders in society.

• People are conserving and enriching agro-biodiversity
• People have access to adequate and diversified food
• People respect each other and their dependence on the natural environment
• People lead their development effectively themselves
• People are able to deal with the climate crisis.

Policy and Advocacy

The objective is to organize review government and international policies to understand the key socio-economic and environmental issues to make advocacy and campaign to influence the policy makers.

Some of the key advocacy issues, which BARCIK has been involved with previously include:

·         Genetic Resource

·         Disaster management and Local/Indigenous Knowledge

·         Climate change adaptation and local/indigenous knowledge

·         Rights and access to market of the non-timber forest products users in Sunderbans;

·         Rights and responsibilities of youth

·         Protecting violation against plants, animals and natural environment. 

Awareness and Information Sharing

Regular seminars and workshops on key issues such as genetic manufacturing of food, disaster management, human rights and gender equality are conducted both at the local and national level.  The awareness programs have often included key resource persons to present papers on contemporary issues to broaden perceptions of the selected participants.

Ongoing and Past Information Sharing programs conducted include:

·         Women’s’ Rights

·         Rights of the urban poor people

·         Biodiversity Conservation and livelihood Rights;

·         Short course on Interdependency, diversity and development.

Institution Development

Action research, change monitoring and impact analysis is the integral part of BARCIK’s programme. Through regular change monitoring system and stakeholders’ requirement, BARCIK organizes its’ institutional capacity to develop regional team and gradually independent regional organizations.

Research

BARCIK has been actively conducting various research initiatives and studies involving issues of agro-biodiversity, livelihood changes and access to natural resources. Having a capable staff well experienced in onsite research and equipped with contemporary participatory tools has led BARCIK to be a leading organization in social research.

Some of the leading Action Researches include:

• Local biodiversity based Farmers Led Applied Research for Sustainable Agriculture
• Peoples led development approach for sustainable development
• Action research on climate change adaptation by traditional means
• Action research on developing people’s plan of action.

Publications

BARCIK being a resource center primarily has managed to periodically publish journals and articles along with research reports to continually increase its own capacity of information and knowledge. The following is a brief list of the different publications produced by BARCIK

Grassroots Voice

One of our principal vehicles for the dissemination of indigenous knowledge (IK) is an annual covering IK related articles from Bangladesh and the South Asian region.

Trinamul Uddog (Grassroots Initiatives)

Geared towards grassroots-level extension workers, local development workers, NGOs, community-based organizations and farming communities, this annual Bengali journal is one of the of practical use to field workers.

Newsletter

BARCIK publishes a newsletter named ‘Amader Poribesh’ (Our environment) based on the grassroots stories and project outputs.

Online News Portal "Barciknews.Com"

BARCIK is currently establishing and formally registering a web-based news service – www.barciknews.com– presenting news as well as background information and analysis on issues relevant for its work, which is also used for internal learning and strengthening the conceptual capacities of staff.

Besides its intended national relevance for issues around development, biodiversity, agriculture and environment, is also be used directly to share experiences and learning by this way from each other amongst staff, communities and other interested stakeholders.